Speaking of new programmers, I had to train one fresh out of votech to use CL. Well, I was quite busy that particular day so I flipped Ernie Malaga's book on CL programming to him and told him to read the first couple of chapters.
In Ernie's intro he explained the typesetting (what italic means, what boldface means, etc.). Unfortunately, Ernie used the PWRDWNSYS command with OPTION(*IMMED). Unfortunately, too, was the fact that the only available terminal that day was the system console. I'm sitting in my office talking with a customer when my terminal went belly up. I went to the room where the other programmers were and asked if they were having problems. No. But then at the far end of the room came a "Yeah, I just went down, too." Then the next programmer, then the next, all in sequence.
I said, "Read the @#$% book." Not "Type the @#$% book."
I told this to Ernie at a COMMON Conference. Unfortunately, he was drinking a Coke at the time. Came right out of his nose when he started laughing.
Jerry C. Adams
IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Gibbs
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 2:09 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Dumb Things People Do
Scott Klement wrote:
Hi Folks... I'm looking to compile a list of (hopefully humorous)
"Dumb Things People Do" to be published in System iNEWS magazine.
Ok, how about this one.
Many years ago, a young programmer I know ... fairly new to the AS/400, was looking for a command to do something. He knew the first part of the command's name ... but not the rest of it.
So, being the industrious person he was ... he typed 'SLTCMD ASN*' and pressed enter ... thinking that he would be presented with a list of all the commands that started with ASN.
Unfortunately, he accidentally typed a 'D' instead of a 'S' on the command line ... you can imagine the rest.
In all fairness, the D key is right next to the S key on the keybard.
david
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